The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11

demned for that. They said it was an out
rage My answer was that every man who
owns property owns it subject to the State,
which has the right to take it, but which
always gives just compensation. SO the
United States government must have sites
for lighthouses, fortresses, arsenals and
public buildings An amendment was
added to the bill which emasculated it, and
placed the government in the position OF
not being able TO act until the bill was
passed.
MIR. NORwooD's CONSTITUENTS.
"But, said my friends, did not consult my
constituents and, therefore, | have been
derelict. propose TO put the boot on the
other leg and show that | did not neglect
my duty, but that the gentlemen who were
SO ready TO make the charge neglected theirs.
The act was approved and an agent sent
out. He did not hide his light under a
bushel 1t was advertised in THE MORNING
News that he was coming and what
he was coming for, and let me
say that when the selection of the
site was the question | turned it
over 10 the citizens. | did not speak for
any site, except to say that ! liked DR..
Hops. | did not oppose the Union So
| ciety lot, though did not like it. The let
| ter of the Secretary, published in the
MORNING News, said that | had kept my
hands off / left it to you, and why! When
| the question of the site came up the Repre-
sentative was sunk in the citizen, and the
humblest man had as much right to be
heard as the greatest.
SELECTING THE SITE.
"Now, | say, these agents came down to
select q site, and it was known. 1t was a
pending question. / was not idle though it
was no more my duty than that of every
other citizen. Another was labOring with
me, Capt Wheaton. After the agents had
made their reports, all were satisfied except
DR. Hops, and he would not sell Then
Capt. Wheaton took Bull street and Aber-
corn, and several other streets, and found
none eligible that the ownera would sell.
They talk of the court house squarei You
all know that even if it was eligible it costs
too much. We can't take 100000 to buy
the site and leave only 100000 for the
building
Mr.. Norwood then named a number of
sites and gave his reasons why they were
not suitable and the reasons were that
either the price was too high or the owners
would not sell, and he then continued as
follows: "But to come back a moment. l
say it was an open question. l was doing
all | could Capt. Wheaton knew what was
going on; but, said Capt Flannery, Mr.
Norwood was direlict in his duty because
he did not consult the Cotton Exchange
the Board of Trade, the Mayor and Alder
men.
THE TRADE ORGANIZATIONS.
81 want to demonstrate to you the absurd
ity Of the thing Will any one tell me what
relation exists between the Cotton Ex-
change, or the Board of Trade, or the
Mayor and Aldermen, with the post office!
Why, gentlemen, nothing more than the
man who drives a dray or picks cotton.
But was derelict because l did not consult
these corporations What have they to do
with the post Office as corporations Why
not consult the Masons, or the Presbyterian
church, or the Orphans Home, or Yama-
craw: They have nothing to do
with il as corporations. But
it may be said that they
did not want me to consult with the corpo-
rations, but with the members! With refer
ence to the post Office all stand upon com
mon plane. There is no distinction be
tween rich and poor, or white and black.
The poor man who pays his &c. has as great
a right to have his letter delivered as the
rich man who pays his, though his letter
may contain a bill for CO, 900 | want to
know if must take a directory and go
upon the street and obtain expressions of
opinions
AM DEREIICT2
Gam derelict in my duty to the Cotton
Exchange and the Board of Trade. If | am
then am derelict to every citizen. Am
derelict! leave it to you as minded
men Ia GLORIOUS of noes. Then where are
the men who condemn me? Ia voice, I'm the
dark'1 They are interested in the site
more, perhaps, than any others of their
numbers. Why did they not come to me
before the site was selected! Why did they
sleep and slumber! Why did they not come
out when ! was working, when Wheaton
was working, when the Secretary was
working! All
The king was in his parlor
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the kitchen
Eating bread and honey"
Roars of laughter followed this poetic
allusion.
81 lay the sin at your door,
A voice-"There is no sin in selecting the
| barracks
81 am taking their view of it. Where
were you when this was going on. "a voice
Down South Why did they not come
| to me! Why did not these gentlemen now
! in such hot haste to condemn me, why die
they not come and aid me! The derehctior
does not lie here, said Mr.. Norwood tap
ping his breast, 81 commend the poisoned
chalice to your own lips"
OTHER SITES CONSIDERED.
He then rehearsed the objections to thu
| court house and Union Society SITES saying
that they are too small and the latter is mex
to Hanleys store, which always contains
| combustible material, and he then said
''Going up Bull street we found no othel
site available until we came to the barracks
| The government was in this position
| take the barracks or wait til
till Congress can condemn a site, which
would reqaire at least twelve months TIL,
agent reported that he had opened the pro
| posals with Capt. Wheaton, and there il
another point my friends have overlooked
Proposals were advertised for, yet Capt
Flannery said that if the Secre
tary of the Treasury was making
any special effort to obtain a site h,
knew nothing of it. My friends remind m,
of the Hardshell Baptist preacher in South
Carolina, who was speaking on doctrina
point and who, as the preachers say, had got
into the brush. He heSitated a moment
and then said: When man undertake
to deliver hisself of what he is not pos
sessed of, he involves hisself in a lab-y
rinth whereof it is impossible to eradicate
hisself therefrom.'
THE COURTS MUST BE RECOGNIZED.
| "Fellow-citizens, there is another matter
that has been overlooked by my friends il
the Exchange They treated the matter as
if the appropriation was for a post office.
| If | had introduced bill for an appropria-
tion for post Office would never have got
q cent for YOU 1t was the argument in